2 Archive Folders and No Personal Folder

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I had to revert my hard drive, I used a backup program for my Outlook 2002 PST files. When I restored it I ended up with 2 Archive folders, with the same information in each, and no personal folder.
I can't delete either archive folder.
I know where the PST folder is, the pst file is archive.pst and if I rename it doesn't work. I have tried removing MS office and reinstalling, renaming the archive PST file, but then outlook hangs when it can't find the archive file.
I just installed Outlook 2003 and it still has 2 Archive folders.....

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Create a new .pst file - make it the default. Open one of the archives and
drag and drop your items from the archive to the new .pst file. When
finished, close both archives.

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Mandy <[email protected]> asked:
| I had to revert my hard drive, I used a backup program for my Outlook
| 2002 PST files. When I restored it I ended up with 2 Archive folders,
| with the same information in each, and no personal folder.
| I can't delete either archive folder.
| I know where the PST folder is, the pst file is archive.pst and if I
| rename it doesn't work. I have tried removing MS office and
| reinstalling, renaming the archive PST file, but then outlook hangs
| when it can't find the archive file. I just installed Outlook 2003
| and it still has 2 Archive folders.....

 

[Guest]

When you state "create a new .pst file" do you mean:
1. Create a new folder in outlook, if I do this it is a subfolder of one of the two archive folders
2. Create it in the folder with the archive pst files (in local settings\appication data\microsoft outlook)
In this folder I have 2 pst files

Archive .pst 193 mb
outlook.pst 231 mb

Also the I can't close or delete either of the two outlook archive folders in outlook.
Thanks.

Create a new .pst file - make it the default. Open one of the archives and
drag and drop your items from the archive to the new .pst file. When
finished, close both archives.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Mandy <[email protected]> asked:
| I had to revert my hard drive, I used a backup program for my Outlook
| 2002 PST files. When I restored it I ended up with 2 Archive folders,
| with the same information in each, and no personal folder.
| I can't delete either archive folder.
| I know where the PST folder is, the pst file is archive.pst and if I
| rename it doesn't work. I have tried removing MS office and
| reinstalling, renaming the archive PST file, but then outlook hangs
| when it can't find the archive file. I just installed Outlook 2003
| and it still has 2 Archive folders.....